35 Best Homemade Cake Recipes

Why do we act like holidays and birthdays are the only times we want to eat cake? We’re sharing 35 of Tip Hero’s best cake recipes so that you can have your cake and eat it too — even if the only thing you’re celebrating is the fact that you’re craving cake.

This incredibly dense and moist layer cake with banana, pineapple, and warm spices is covered with swirls of rich cream cheese frosting and crunchy toasted pecans on top. And if you’ve never had it — but you’re a fan of banana cake, pineapple upside-down cake, or carrot cake — you’re going to be thoroughly charmed by our easier-than-you’d-expect hummingbird cake recipe. Plus, this is a 100% homemade cake recipe.

We promise, you can pull this off. Think this gorgeous fruit pizza came home from a fancy patisserie in a box with a ribbon on it? You won’t believe that it actually started its life as one of those blue tubes of store-bought refrigerated sugar cookie dough.

If you can make cupcakes, you can make this heart-shaped pull-apart cake. A simple cupcake hack is the trick behind this romantic and exciting dessert – and we promise that when your friends see how this pull-apart cake works, their hearts will skip a beat.

Ah, Reese’s peanut butter cups. We all know there’s no wrong way to eat them – but cheesecake just seems especially right. If a cheesecake loaded with PB cups and chocolate ganache doesn’t sound decadent enough, we made this one with an Oreo cookie crust. Consider your sweet tooth dreams fulfilled.

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet – and you are too, especially if you make this edible rose cupcake bouquet for your favorite people. After all, the way to the heart is through the stomach.

This bananas foster cake is homemade from scratch — and it will seriously light your fire. It’s topped by bananas slathered in a one-of-a-kind rum sauce and baked upside-down for lip-licking moistness.

Yes, you can totally bake a cake without an oven. This ovenless chocolate Bundt cake is not only possible — it’s a cakewalk. And the texture is amazing. And you don’t need a special stovetop cake pan — just your trusty Bundt pan and a pot big enough to hold it.

Creating that mosaic of baked apples is not as hard as it looks. Watch our video to see just how easy it is to make this scene stealer. This spiced cake just demands to be served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Why is it called an earthquake cake? Because the ingredients shift around when you bake it: the cream cheese sinks into the german chocolate cake, while the pecans and coconut rise to the top. The end result is gooey, chocolatey, and delicious.

Do you flip for pineapple upside-down cake? Then you need to try this banana coconut version! Not everyone loves pineapple, so we swapped the typical pineapple and cherry with banana and coconut. The flavor is comforting and just a little bit exotic. A scrumptiously sticky layer of bananas caramelized in an easy brown sugar sauce glazes the top of this moist yellow cake.

This treat screams “made with love”. The best thing about it? You don’t have to be a master baker; all you need is your favorite cake mix, our buttercream frosting recipe, a couple basic round and square cake pans, and our video tutorial.

When is a chocolate cake more than just a chocolate cake? When it’s rich, buttery, and flavorful, and topped with marshmallows, pecans and the most decadent chocolate drizzle. You’d have to be a stick in the mud to not love this Mississippi mud cake.

Holy moly, this is definitely an upgrade on the old ice cream sandwich. We’ll show you how to make a triple-layer ice cream cake by pouring chocolate cake mix into a waffle iron and filling it with three of your favorite flavors of ice cream.

This no-bake roll cake looks exquisite, but is actually easy to whip up with only six ingredients. The ladyfinger cookie crust is filled with creamy vanilla pudding and stuffed with a surprise banana. It’s kinda like tiramisu, kinda like a Swiss roll, and kinda like a French charlotte — and yet this unique treat is like nothing you’ve ever made before.

Half devil’s food, half flan, this cake performs a magic trick while it bakes: the ingredients go in the pan, it bakes, the cake is released from the Bundt pan, and voilà — the components have switched places. The cake rises to the top, the flan sinks to the bottom, and the result is a totally creative treat.

It doesn’t take as much skill as you’d think to create this patriotic cake that’s perfect for the 4th of July. Just pipe red, white, and blue batter into an American flag design, bake it, then roll up the whole thing into a spiral cake filled with a whipped cream cheese filling.

In this recipe, we totally cake-ify banana bread. We’ll show you how to make a buttermilk cake from scratch, with mashed bananas mixed in and a luscious cream cheese frosting on top. Top it with more bananas for a true delight.

It’s our favorite pineapple upside-down cake, transformed into an eye-catching Bundt cake. Our video will show you a super easy way to arrange the fruit so that everyone gets pineapple and cherry in every slice.

Dessert doesn’t get more delicious than a chocolate lava cake. It’s so oddly satisfying to slide a fork into a freshly-baked treat and watching that chocolate just ooze out onto the plate. How in the world could we ever make it better? By making the “lava” out of peanut butter, of course.

This no-bake cake is the perfect combination of sweet and tart, and the graham cracker/gingersnap crust makes it extra luscious. Our recipe yields 3 mini cheesecakes for you to share — but you won’t want to.